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Speaker 1: a long time Cowboys reporter joining me today. Barry Church,
Speaker 1: former Dallas Cowboys safety are the running buddy. Danny McCray
Speaker 1: opportunity leave. His wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter,
Speaker 1: so he needs to be spending time wilking acclimating himself
Speaker 1: into the girl club. There, Dan, Danny, we love you,
Speaker 1: but stay away the rest of the week and will
Speaker 1: make maybe chat with your on Monday. So Church, you
Speaker 1: and I running this thing here Seattle this week. No
Speaker 1: twelfth man. I can't tell you how big that is
Speaker 1: that there will be no crowd in Seattle because of
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen. And how this isn't a possible advantage
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. I say it possible because their first
Speaker 1: game of the year was against another NFC West opponent
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles against the Rams. No crowd there. Cowboys
Speaker 1: lost by three. But you've played there before. You tell
Speaker 1: our Cowboy fans here how tough that atmosphere is with
Speaker 1: their crowd, which they call the twelfth Man. Look, I've
Speaker 1: played up there multiple times in Seattle, and I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that twelfth Man, that that crowd noise that comes
Speaker 1: with that stadium, it's real and it's a real advantage
Speaker 1: for Seattle. I mean, when you're going in there, they're
Speaker 1: already a good team to begin with. So when you
Speaker 1: go into Seattle, you first you pull in, you're coming
Speaker 1: through the city. You know, you got Russell Wilson jerseys
Speaker 1: all over the city, got people, get fans yelling and screaming,
Speaker 1: So the atmosphere is already hyped up pulling into Seattle.
Speaker 1: Then you go through the tunnels and you get to
Speaker 1: the locker room, and when you come out on the field.
Speaker 1: Their stadium is built kind of like it's very vertical.
Speaker 1: So when you come out onto the field, it feels
Speaker 1: like the fans and everybody, even the people that are
Speaker 1: way up in the nosebleed seats, it feels like they're
Speaker 1: just sitting right on top of you and it no
Speaker 1: matter where you go, you just hear this sound. It's hummed,
Speaker 1: this vibration, just this kind of electric coming from that
Speaker 1: stands and that twelfth man. So once Seattle gets it going,
Speaker 1: and once they start rolling and Russell Wilson's cooking up
Speaker 1: as he usually does, I mean that that fan base
Speaker 1: gets loud, and it gets loud in a hurry. So
Speaker 1: I say it's an advantage. It's advantage for the for Seattle,
Speaker 1: but not having fans could be an advantage for Dallas.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're going out there, you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about that twelfth man screaming all over the place.
Speaker 1: You can get into your cadence. You can try to
Speaker 1: get into your hard account and try to gain a
Speaker 1: few yards by bringing one of them off sides, or
Speaker 1: you can go through your communication with your receivers or
Speaker 1: you're running back and vice versa. The defense can go
Speaker 1: through their communication with the secondary and the linebackers in
Speaker 1: the D line when there's not that amazing crowd and
Speaker 1: know what's going on. So the Cowboys, you know, they
Speaker 1: got kind of lucky going up to Seattle this time
Speaker 1: with no fans, and hopefully they can take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: So Church, give me your top three venues to play
Speaker 1: in where the crowd was really a factor. Top three venues,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say in no particular order. Um,
Speaker 1: Seattle's definitely up there. I mean I just explained how
Speaker 1: they how they're kind of on top of you with that,
Speaker 1: with that vertical stadium. Um, I gotta go with Philly
Speaker 1: as well. Philly, it's just the nastiness just when you
Speaker 1: go in there, just fans just saying all types of
Speaker 1: stuff and just I mean it's it's just a real
Speaker 1: gritty rivalry. So the so that stadium right there, just
Speaker 1: the fans just kind of they can overwhelm you if
Speaker 1: you're getting beat down by Philly over there. And lastly,
Speaker 1: I gotta say it's not as big as known as
Speaker 1: you know, Seattle or Philly. But Tennessee. I mean I
Speaker 1: played in there a couple of times when I was
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, and that was a big rivalry in that
Speaker 1: AFC South. So the fans from Tennessee get really hyped
Speaker 1: when when they go against Jacksonville. And when I was there, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: you know, Tennessee kind of had a strangle hold on
Speaker 1: us in that division. So their fans were really hyped
Speaker 1: every time we went up there. But those three stadiums
Speaker 1: to me, I mean, the fans definitely a play a
Speaker 1: role in the game, all right. So this is a
Speaker 1: Seattle team that is rolling on offense. We've talked about that.
Speaker 1: But from a defensive standpoint, Danny, they're not I mean, Dan, Barry,
Speaker 1: they're not real good. And this is where I would
Speaker 1: love to get Danny's opinion, because you know, Danny's always
Speaker 1: that contrarian. You know, he's the contrarian of the show.
Speaker 1: You know, if we see he comes out and he
Speaker 1: got to go say that. So so I'm when the
Speaker 1: role he's out to you, all right, Barry, So you
Speaker 1: just give me your thoughts on this. Seattle's defense is
Speaker 1: allowing a league high five hundred and eighty five yards,
Speaker 1: all right. They are giving up the most explosive plays
Speaker 1: in the National Football League with forty seven. They define
Speaker 1: explosive plays by ten yards or more. The Cowboys lead
Speaker 1: the NFL with forty one explosive plays. Now, I would
Speaker 1: expect Danny to just poop poo on this, But right now,
Speaker 1: when I see this, when I see these numbers, I
Speaker 1: say to myself, Okay, you had Matt ryanthrow for four
Speaker 1: hundred yards on them. Now they were behind, but still
Speaker 1: they gave it up. And then you had Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton is not known for four hundred yard days.
Speaker 1: He had three ninety eight, so he had almost four
Speaker 1: hundred yards of passing here. So if I'm the Cowboys offense,
Speaker 1: despite how dreadful they were against Atlanta in that first quarter,
Speaker 1: I look at this matchup and say, Okay, we could
Speaker 1: do something. If we don't shoot ourselves in the foot,
Speaker 1: they can put up points on this group. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like Danny would say, you know, he would poop pooh
Speaker 1: all over that talk about garbage yards and all different
Speaker 1: types of stuff. But yeah, I agree with you. I
Speaker 1: agree with you, knew we I mean, this defense can
Speaker 1: be taken advantage of. We're seeing what um Atlanta with
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons were able to do in that Week
Speaker 1: one matchup. Granted they were down and you know, Seahawks
Speaker 1: might have been playing a little pre event there, but
Speaker 1: they were still getting being up those huge explosive plays.
Speaker 1: And then to your point last week against Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: Now this is a guy who's who's never gonna be
Speaker 1: mistaken for Pat Mahomes when it comes to being able
Speaker 1: to throw the ball over the yard. But um, he
Speaker 1: went out there and I think he threw for what
Speaker 1: like three hundred and some three forty something like that
Speaker 1: and a couple of touchdowns, had eight exactly three ninety
Speaker 1: eight against this Seattle defense, who we all know they're
Speaker 1: not the legion of Boom, but we didn't think they
Speaker 1: were going to come into the season like this, and um,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton was able to pick him apart. I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's not like, you know, Cam Newton's out there
Speaker 1: with Randy Moss, Jerry Bryce and somebody else at the slot.
Speaker 1: He went out there with I think the Marius Bird, Um,
Speaker 1: Nikel Harry beat up Julian Edelman, um. And you know,
Speaker 1: he had a couple of guys that tight in. But
Speaker 1: he was able to go out there and throw for
Speaker 1: almost four hundred yards. So with that, you know, with
Speaker 1: that skill set and with that group of receivers that
Speaker 1: he had, and he was able to do that, I
Speaker 1: can only imagine, you know, the ceiling for Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and these boys has got to be high, because, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, Dak Prescott is a much better thrower of
Speaker 1: the football than Cam Newton. So, and he has a
Speaker 1: much better, you know, a much better core of receivers
Speaker 1: with you know, was it Michael Gallup? You know Cooper
Speaker 1: and then you got the young rookie over there, Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 1: So I think, like the weapons for Dak Prescott are
Speaker 1: way better than Cam Newton had, and he was able
Speaker 1: to do that. So I don't see why this offense
Speaker 1: can't produce high, high numbers against this defense. If that
Speaker 1: offensive line is able to hold up against against Seattle's I,
Speaker 1: like many many people in the media, you spend so
Speaker 1: much time covering the team you're covered, you focus on
Speaker 1: them that you don't really look wide across the league
Speaker 1: and look at what everyone else has and get that
Speaker 1: wide view. So when I started looking at the game
Speaker 1: notes and looking into the numbers here Church, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here myself saying, wait a minute, Okay, this Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: better than I'm thinking. Also, the Seattle defense, while they're
Speaker 1: two and oh, they definitely have some wards. Here here's
Speaker 1: some more Seattle number six point eight yards. The Seattle
Speaker 1: d is giving up six point eight yards per attempt
Speaker 1: on first down. That's twenty seventh in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: on the flip side, the Cowboy offense is averaging six
Speaker 1: point six yards on first down seventh in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We spoke about trying to make sure you gain time
Speaker 1: of possession, and we talked about running Ezekie Elliott. If
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can win first down, that's your better opportunity
Speaker 1: to convert third downs and also move the football to
Speaker 1: keep your defense off the field. So knowing that this
Speaker 1: is a kind of yardage they're giving up on first down,
Speaker 1: six point eight, Barry, if you're a coordinator, do you
Speaker 1: attack them more with the run or the past? How
Speaker 1: do you go about trying to you know, get these
Speaker 1: yards on first down? To me? And it falls right
Speaker 1: into the lapse of Ezekiel Elliott. I mean, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: getting you know, they're giving up all these passing yards.
Speaker 1: But I still feel like the engine of this offense
Speaker 1: is Zeki Elliott. And if they're giving up six point
Speaker 1: eight yards on first down, I mean, if we're able
Speaker 1: to get that run going, and even if we're only
Speaker 1: averaging four four and a half yards to carry, that
Speaker 1: makes third down so much more manageable and so much
Speaker 1: easier to call. I mean, you got when it's third
Speaker 1: and five or third and four, you're eight, you got
Speaker 1: your whole playbook in front of you, versus whether it's
Speaker 1: third and ten and to third to fifteen, you gotta
Speaker 1: pretty much condense it and say, ah, I won't do
Speaker 1: We'll play the field position battle. But if they're able
Speaker 1: to do that, if they're able to get Zeke going
Speaker 1: and he's averaging four to five yards a pop, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's basically pick your poison out there. Do you get
Speaker 1: do we get hit with Zeke for five on first down?
Speaker 1: Or do we get hit with CD Gallop, Shoultz, you know,
Speaker 1: Cooper out there for five. I mean it's it's basically
Speaker 1: pick your poison. So I feel like we have to
Speaker 1: develop this run. We have to first down, let them go,
Speaker 1: set the tone to a we're coming down your throat
Speaker 1: with Ezekiel Elliott, and then after that we should be
Speaker 1: able to pick our poison. But to me, it all
Speaker 1: starts with the run game. I'm gonna stay with the
Speaker 1: run game, but I'm going to switch it a little
Speaker 1: bit more and say, if they're giving up that kind
Speaker 1: of yardage, what about some screen passes to Zeke. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking to myself. All right, yeah, I can run it,
Speaker 1: but also mixing some I mean, I don't think that
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett got enough out of Ezekie Elliott the pass
Speaker 1: game during his tenure. I would love to see them
Speaker 1: do that. M Seattle did that with Chris Carson, especially
Speaker 1: in the Atlanta game, ended up with two touchdowns. But
Speaker 1: I just think that this is a real good opportunity
Speaker 1: trying to spread the Seahawks defense out. Okay, spread their
Speaker 1: defense out, and let's figure out a way get Zeke
Speaker 1: the ball. And if you're running some basically some wires
Speaker 1: you know, receiving from running back screens and some bubbles,
Speaker 1: get this guy out here. And also we know they
Speaker 1: got some good linebackers and Bobby Wagner and kJ right,
Speaker 1: but test them. Test these guys. Put Zeke out here
Speaker 1: on the wheel route. Let's see if they can sit
Speaker 1: up here and go with them. I mean, look, kJ right, good, Bobby, Bobby,
Speaker 1: one of them. You talk about a guy putting together
Speaker 1: a whole of fame, resume fun, he's phenomenal. Let me
Speaker 1: test my guy against your guy, because I got a
Speaker 1: feeling Ezekiel Elliott is gonna be able to win his
Speaker 1: fair share of battles here. I really would love to
Speaker 1: see them get Zeke involved in that passing game on
Speaker 1: first down and also mix in and some runs. But
Speaker 1: they got to vary it here. You know, you can't
Speaker 1: just do the same old things that Seattle deep and
Speaker 1: self clue and ain't know on that. So that's what
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that I'm hoping that you see some of
Speaker 1: that on first downs here for the Cowboys. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't go out there and just basically telegraph everything you're
Speaker 1: about to do. I think I think you have a
Speaker 1: good point in there by saying, you know, you you
Speaker 1: mix up a little bit of a bubble screens, you
Speaker 1: mix up a little bit of screens. But Ezekiel Elliott,
Speaker 1: because that's that's a great formula to have, and I
Speaker 1: feel like that's what the formula we had back in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen when we went against those guys. And also
Speaker 1: I think that's the formula they had when they won
Speaker 1: that playoff game. I believe it was twenty seventeen or
Speaker 1: maybe eighteen, when the Cowboys play Seattle in the wildcard
Speaker 1: and had won that playoff game. That was a similar
Speaker 1: formula they had. They ran the ball well, they were
Speaker 1: able to get the ball to multiple receivers, and then
Speaker 1: they had a lateral game as well. They weren't all
Speaker 1: just throwing shots down the middle of the field in
Speaker 1: big time vertical passing game. They had some lateral game
Speaker 1: to them, and it kind of kept that that Seattle
Speaker 1: defense off balance. It's similar to what the Rams did
Speaker 1: to us in the first game. I mean they kept
Speaker 1: us off balance. They threw they threw bubble screens, they
Speaker 1: threw you know, quick hitters and three step drops, and
Speaker 1: it kept us extremely off balance and it didn't let
Speaker 1: us use our aggressiveness against them. So I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think we need to keep them off balance, and
Speaker 1: I think our best bet is with the run and
Speaker 1: also trickling some players here and there to keep them
Speaker 1: off balance. But we got to do whatever we can
Speaker 1: keep this defense off the field. You spoke about the
Speaker 1: playoff game. That was January fifth, twenty nineteen. It was
Speaker 1: a twenty four card win with Dak Prescott quarterback in
Speaker 1: the Cowboys against Russell Wilson. Now, the last time the
Speaker 1: Cowboys played up in Seattle, they lost twenty four to thirteen.
Speaker 1: That was September twenty third of twenty eighteen, Dallas, four
Speaker 1: and five all time Church up here in Seattle. So
Speaker 1: I'm writing as I'm writing the notes down and I'm saying, oh, Camp,
Speaker 1: feeling a little bit better than I did coming out
Speaker 1: of the Atlantic and thinking about Seattle and just thinking,
Speaker 1: my gosh, you know, here, Seattle's was rust clearly a
Speaker 1: MVP candidate right now. Maybe this team is better than
Speaker 1: you know, you know, could be playing with Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But I start looking at the defense, I say, they've
Speaker 1: really got some of the same issues that the Cowboys have.
Speaker 1: Their defense is not where it needs to be, and
Speaker 1: you gotta get that fixed. Bruce Irvin, one of their
Speaker 1: defensive ends, out for the year, and Vincent Mayo he
Speaker 1: may not play. He's on the injury list, so it's
Speaker 1: another win over the d lineman. He's on the injury list,
Speaker 1: so we'll see exactly where he is right now. The
Speaker 1: leading sack master on the team is Jamal Adams, the safety.
Speaker 1: So up front, Seattle's having their own issues. I went
Speaker 1: back and started looking at the run numbers here. So
Speaker 1: when you talk about total defense in rush defense, Seattle
Speaker 1: is second in the league, but when it comes to
Speaker 1: pass defense, they're dead last at thirty two, given up
Speaker 1: four hundred fifteen yards in the air. So I'm feeling
Speaker 1: better and I think Cowboy fans should feel a little
Speaker 1: bit better. On the flip side, We're gonna take a
Speaker 1: break when we come back. Let's look at some of
Speaker 1: the defensive issues for the Cowboys with injuries. And Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said something today about the Cowboy defense which surprised me.
Speaker 1: And a little bit of pushback from Cowboy defenders and
Speaker 1: what Mike Nolan is doing right now after two games,
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Speaker 1: is out. Danny's wife had a beautiful baby this week,
Speaker 1: so they are enjoying their first child and making all
Speaker 1: those new adaptions to life, because life will never be
Speaker 1: the same as you well know Burried Church Girl, Dub
Speaker 1: Claub as well, the Girl Dad Club as well. It's
Speaker 1: just it's just different. You know, they're gonna go home
Speaker 1: and they're bringing someone in. You know, this is bringing
Speaker 1: someone in the house. Um, let me ask, did you
Speaker 1: have a dog when you brought home your your first baby?
Speaker 1: Did you have a dog? Oh? Yeah, we had a Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had a chocolate lab named Cocoa when we had
Speaker 1: brought our kid back. How did the dog? How did
Speaker 1: Coco adapt to the baby we had brought back? So
Speaker 1: first we brought back, like I had came back from
Speaker 1: the hospital with a blanket that our baby was Jordan
Speaker 1: was was wrapped in and let her smell it and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And then when we came in. She's
Speaker 1: a real kind of calm, kind of chill dog to
Speaker 1: begin with, So she just came in, smelled him a
Speaker 1: couple of times, licked them. There was something like nervous.
Speaker 1: She chewed on her paws a little bit from the
Speaker 1: first couple a couple of days, But after that, I
Speaker 1: mean she just kind of kind of kind of got
Speaker 1: along with them. And then after a while he started
Speaker 1: feeding her foods off his plate. You know how babies
Speaker 1: are when you're eating her all messy, throwing food all
Speaker 1: over the place. So she loved them for that. And
Speaker 1: ever since then, man, they've been best friends. Yeah. I'll
Speaker 1: always remember we brought our kid home and there our
Speaker 1: dog Macy, and she's just sniffing the baby, putting the
Speaker 1: bathroom and became the you know, the the guardian became
Speaker 1: the guardian. So if my wife was out walking the
Speaker 1: dog and somebody got near the baby and my wife,
Speaker 1: that dog with growl. She would growl because you know,
Speaker 1: she was a girl dog. It was just very protective.
Speaker 1: So that that was kind of cool. So, um, I'm
Speaker 1: happy for the mccraze. So it's a great yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And uh, we don't want to see him back on
Speaker 1: the shoulders week church in my boyhood and and and
Speaker 1: we can handle this business hand. So let's sto. Let's
Speaker 1: let's jump into the defense here. Um, we give you
Speaker 1: up the latest on injuries. Uh, Trevon Diggs dealing with
Speaker 1: the shoulder. Was that the open, open portion of practice? Um?
Speaker 1: And then we'll find out later on if he went
Speaker 1: through full practice. Thank Lawrence. UM, just checking out my
Speaker 1: notes right here. He was on the field for the
Speaker 1: open portion. He's dealing with the knee, so we'll see exactly,
Speaker 1: you know, if he gets a full participant in practice
Speaker 1: later on to day when the practice report comes out.
Speaker 1: And then just his ability. So you've got those two
Speaker 1: things the Cowboys are dealing with. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: Cheeto Wuzier case anybody didn't know, was ruled out of
Speaker 1: multiple weeks by Mike McCarthy yesterday. He's dealing with a hamstring.
Speaker 1: And here's what I found pretty interesting for the Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy press conference today Church and that's where Mike says
Speaker 1: that they needed to simplify the defense, and he said,
Speaker 1: quote cut the volume back, meaning Mike Nolan's got too
Speaker 1: much in his defense that these guys are not processing.
Speaker 1: Two weeks in and they're finally talking about it. And
Speaker 1: I give Danny mccraig credit. He said this was the
Speaker 1: issue a couple of years ago when Rob Ryan came
Speaker 1: in and tried to put in all these complexities of
Speaker 1: his defense and it wasn't good. Mike Nolan didn't have OTAs,
Speaker 1: he didn't have a mini camp, he didn't have a
Speaker 1: full training camp. To put in his defense. And right
Speaker 1: now we're seeing dudes think there's too much in the
Speaker 1: playbook your thoughts. Yeah, I gotta give credit to Danny
Speaker 1: on this one. Man, he was right the right on
Speaker 1: the button with this one. And it was a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back. I mean, when you don't have OTAs
Speaker 1: and when you don't have mini camp and your training
Speaker 1: camp is abbreviated with no you know, preseason games, it
Speaker 1: gets kind of hard, especially with a whole new defensive
Speaker 1: system coming in, with new terminology. We were throwing it
Speaker 1: back and forth if we didn't know they were gonna
Speaker 1: go three four or four to three. You had a
Speaker 1: couple of guys switching positions out there, So it can
Speaker 1: be hard, and especially with a defense like Mike Nolan's
Speaker 1: who is pretty complex with it. So um, I mean,
Speaker 1: and you gotta you gotta listen to your players. I mean,
Speaker 1: because those are the guys that are on the field.
Speaker 1: So if the players are saying, hey, we need to
Speaker 1: dial it back a little bit, we need to get
Speaker 1: the terminology down a little bit so we can get
Speaker 1: a better understanding, I think that'll pay off dividends, because
Speaker 1: if you're a defensive player, and you're going out on
Speaker 1: that field and you're thinking too much. If you're if
Speaker 1: you're on the field saying, man, do I gotta I
Speaker 1: got three vertical? Or do I gotta push through the
Speaker 1: flat on this one? Or man, is it my turn
Speaker 1: of bliss? You're gonna play extremely slow out there, and
Speaker 1: it's been looking that way with this cowboy defense the
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks. So if they're able to dial
Speaker 1: it down a little bit, allow your players to play
Speaker 1: fast without even thinking, just knowing, Bam, I got this,
Speaker 1: or Bam, I gotta lock this guy up, or I
Speaker 1: gotta hit this run gap, then it'll allow those players
Speaker 1: to just use their talents instead of just thinking about
Speaker 1: it too much and slowing them down. They'll use their talents.
Speaker 1: They'll go out there and they'll play a lot faster,
Speaker 1: and I promise you you'll have a better result if
Speaker 1: that's the case. So I agree with Jalen and those
Speaker 1: boys if it's if it's too much the coordinator by
Speaker 1: knowling in this instance, he gotta listen to his players
Speaker 1: because they're the ones that are on the field getting
Speaker 1: the work done. So he got to dial it back.
Speaker 1: You can't just go out there and have your players
Speaker 1: thinking way too much because they'll play slow and they'll
Speaker 1: play will be affected. Everson Griffin told the media that
Speaker 1: he's a three point stance guy. We've seen the Cowboys
Speaker 1: trying to mix in some three four principles versus the
Speaker 1: four to three. Lawrence's best years have come with his
Speaker 1: hand in the dirt, same with Everson Griffin, and so
Speaker 1: apparently the conversations have been, do you try and just
Speaker 1: go back to that four to three, do what your
Speaker 1: guys do best instead of you trying to fit your
Speaker 1: scheme them, you know them, fit your skin, maybe you
Speaker 1: figure of what they do because right now you start
Speaker 1: looking at the stats here, the Cowboys have two sacks
Speaker 1: and seven quarterback hits and they've got just fourteen quarterback pressures,
Speaker 1: which is tied for twentieth in the NFL. They're not
Speaker 1: where they need to be. And if you can't get
Speaker 1: to Matt Ryan, but just one time, good luck dealing
Speaker 1: with Russell Wood, because he's a whole different animal. And
Speaker 1: they only got to Jared Golf of the Rams one time.
Speaker 1: And we saw both of those quarterbacks, by the way,
Speaker 1: use their ability on third downs with their legs to
Speaker 1: pick them up, So yeah, yeah, there's some issues here man.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I mean, and look, they need to do
Speaker 1: whatever they need possible to generate a rush. I don't
Speaker 1: care if they got to stand on their hands and
Speaker 1: do backflips to get to the quarterback. Whatever they got
Speaker 1: to do. They got to figure out some to generate
Speaker 1: some type of pass for us because we just haven't
Speaker 1: been seeing it lately. And if it takes going back
Speaker 1: to what they're comfortable with in the three point stands,
Speaker 1: which I always thought that was confusing for a defensive
Speaker 1: lineman in a stand up position. I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: in the three four, I can understand that because you're
Speaker 1: half of the time you're buzzing out to the flat,
Speaker 1: so you got to kind of be up right. But
Speaker 1: if you're in the four three and you're a defensive
Speaker 1: end handing the dirt man, because you're starting off low,
Speaker 1: your get off is already low and that gives you
Speaker 1: an advantage over that the offensive lineman. So if they
Speaker 1: got to do that to get that whatever they need
Speaker 1: to do to get back to getting that pass for
Speaker 1: us going, they have to get it done. If that's
Speaker 1: three point stands, then let it be three point stands
Speaker 1: whatever they're comfortable with, to just get after the quarterback. Man,
Speaker 1: that's the only thing I need this defensive line to do.
Speaker 1: When you say get after the quarterback. And I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of your Jacksonville teams that you played one or you
Speaker 1: guys ruled the sacks there. When you face someone like
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, is it the same type of mentality about
Speaker 1: sacks or is it more about trying to contain because
Speaker 1: you know he can such a weapon. How do you
Speaker 1: view sacks when you face a guy like this, Oh,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, it's gonna be contained. He's not like
Speaker 1: a statue back there. He's not a Tom Brady or
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning or Ben Roethlisberger guys that are just kind
Speaker 1: of statue guys back there. This guy can move and
Speaker 1: he can move the pocket. And if you're going out
Speaker 1: there thinking, oh I can take this inside release, give up,
Speaker 1: contain because I'll be able to chase him down. And
Speaker 1: that's called hero ball and I don't get you beat.
Speaker 1: So if you're if you're a defensive lineman in this situation,
Speaker 1: I know I say get after the quarterback, that you
Speaker 1: gotta do it smartly. If you're a defensive end, and
Speaker 1: you have contained get as much pass rush as you
Speaker 1: can while still keeping that leverage outside because once he
Speaker 1: gets outside, once he uses that patent it spin out
Speaker 1: technique that he uses and gets out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: all bets are offed in. I mean the way this
Speaker 1: offense works with locket with metcalf, I mean they can
Speaker 1: go deep shots at I mean, it's just you just
Speaker 1: can't do it. So you have to kick this guy
Speaker 1: contained make him play from the pocket. I know he
Speaker 1: can do that. He's a good enough quarterback to be
Speaker 1: able to play from the pocket. But if you can
Speaker 1: dish that pocket, do not give him run lanes. I
Speaker 1: think you'll have a better shot at defending Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and just getting your hands up. I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: isn't you know a six five six eight quarterback or
Speaker 1: six five six six quarterback back there. He's not um,
Speaker 1: you know Tom bradyer or Matt Ryan back there. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a shorter guy, he's a he's a breeze
Speaker 1: type guy. So if you can get that front push
Speaker 1: and you can keep containing your front interior part of
Speaker 1: your defensive line can get that push, make it hard
Speaker 1: for him to see over. I think you have pretty
Speaker 1: much you'll have some success against him, but you gotta
Speaker 1: keep him contained. All right, Let's step back here into
Speaker 1: the offense. Amari Cooper, who had a hundred yard game
Speaker 1: against Atlanta, said that going into that game he had
Speaker 1: foot issues. He had an issue with it, and he
Speaker 1: says he's fine, And what he did say was quote
Speaker 1: wasn't at full speed against Atlanta. So he says he's
Speaker 1: ready to go full speed against the Seattle Seahawks. And
Speaker 1: to me, when you look at the fact that Seattle's
Speaker 1: dead last in passing, if Amari Cooper could get one
Speaker 1: hundred yard last week and he wasn't ready to go,
Speaker 1: you gotta you have to feel good if we take
Speaker 1: him at his word that he's ready to go here.
Speaker 1: Because if he is better than he was last week
Speaker 1: and we saw Ceede Lamb get a hundred, I gotta
Speaker 1: believe this will be the Michael Gallup breakout game because
Speaker 1: Seattle can't. I mean, somebody's gonna get some one on
Speaker 1: one here and this might be that week for Michael Gallup.
Speaker 1: And if you've got your fantasy team and you've had
Speaker 1: Gallup there and you've been waiting and waiting, waiting, this
Speaker 1: might be it, This might be that week for guy.
Speaker 1: I'm calling it right now. Michael is the receipt. Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup is the guy with the big plays this week.
Speaker 1: He's the guy you're gonna look at and say, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna have anybody match Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 1: because Tyler can you know, he can make some explosive
Speaker 1: plays in his number four Cowboys past two times he
Speaker 1: played is really good. It's got to be Gallop in
Speaker 1: my opinion, take advantage of the one on one matchup
Speaker 1: because I also believe that Pete Carroll's and Ken Norton
Speaker 1: gona dial up some bullets. They're gonna try and get
Speaker 1: after that with this offensive line. So I think Gallup
Speaker 1: can be that guy that when they got to cut
Speaker 1: a couple of hot routes out here look for thirteen
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Yeah, I think, you know, for me, Gallup
Speaker 1: could be that guy because I'm sure Cooper's gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot of attention. But first let me talk about Cooper.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you know it was you know, it was just
Speaker 1: a foot issue, and he's able to get over that
Speaker 1: and he's not reverting back to that last year where
Speaker 1: he was, you know, a missing person for away games.
Speaker 1: Because we need this guy to show up immensely for
Speaker 1: this game. So hopefully he doesn't, you know, pull this
Speaker 1: missing guy routine when he goes to away games. But
Speaker 1: you could be right about this Gallup situation. Seeing as
Speaker 1: though Pete Curls gonna dial up a lot of blitzes.
Speaker 1: With this patchwork offensive line that we have going on here,
Speaker 1: this could be a great situation for Gallup, who's great
Speaker 1: at winning those fifty fifty jump type balls. If we
Speaker 1: could throw up a couple of those to him and
Speaker 1: get in I'm sure he won't be going against their
Speaker 1: top corner who I think I believe it's Shaquill Griffith.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't be going against him, So he should have
Speaker 1: a pretty good opportunity against Dumbar over there for those
Speaker 1: fifty fifty balls. But for me, I think this is
Speaker 1: going to be another game where Ceedee Lamb takes that
Speaker 1: next step. I mean we saw last week where or
Speaker 1: the first week where he had a couple of catches
Speaker 1: but they limited they limited his yards after the catch
Speaker 1: against the Rams, I mean, he was getting tossed around
Speaker 1: here as soon as he caught the ball. The very
Speaker 1: next week in Atlanta, you saw a tick in a
Speaker 1: tick up in that yards after catch Ram and he
Speaker 1: was able to make asthmus. He was able to kick
Speaker 1: some yards after those catch, and I think this third
Speaker 1: week is a week for CD to do that as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have those two corners on the outside
Speaker 1: and on the interior we saw. I mean Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: he's in on that interior coverage as well, and he's
Speaker 1: not the best cover safety there is, so when it
Speaker 1: comes to interior coverage, I think CD Lamb can take
Speaker 1: advantage of this and I think he'll be able to
Speaker 1: get a lot of more yards after the catch and
Speaker 1: hopefully this Cowboys offense can roll up the numbers against
Speaker 1: the Seattle defense. All right, let me defend Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: because you go back, let's look at the first game
Speaker 1: of the year, road game against the La Rams. Ten catches,
Speaker 1: eighty one yards. Yeah, I get it. He you know,
Speaker 1: he had his receptions, but I feel like there was
Speaker 1: no impact there. I mean it was I feel like
Speaker 1: it was it was ten maybe ten hitches he caught
Speaker 1: out there for eight yards if I mean, it was
Speaker 1: no real impact like we saw against Atlanta when he
Speaker 1: had that fifty some yard in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: or when he had those big time catches. So my
Speaker 1: first game, I'll give it to he played a little
Speaker 1: bit better than he did in years past in away games.
Speaker 1: But I just need that impact that he has in
Speaker 1: home games in away games as well. I need him
Speaker 1: to be that complete receiver. Okay, so last week six catches,
Speaker 1: one hundred yards, so four less catches, but yeah, twenty
Speaker 1: one more yards, so so I mean nineteen more yards.
Speaker 1: So to me, the performances are basically a little even now.
Speaker 1: I didn't dive into you know, how many of those
Speaker 1: balls were moving the sticks, you know, and and I
Speaker 1: don't know how explosed to the plays were. But I
Speaker 1: don't feel like Amari Cooper these first two games is
Speaker 1: a problem. I think they're fun. Is he DK Metcalf? No? No,
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf is playing really well. He's playing back. But
Speaker 1: right now, there're not many receivers who are connected with
Speaker 1: their quarterback like that. But I don't have any issues
Speaker 1: with him. Look, he's earnings one hundred million dollars. He's
Speaker 1: earning his one hundred million dollars. When I look at
Speaker 1: the other one hundred million dollars guy on the team
Speaker 1: right now, Tank Lords he's earning his one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: Tank has not had a full sack since Week eight
Speaker 1: of last year. That's not going Yeah, that's that's full sack. Man.
Speaker 1: This is not what you paid for when you accept
Speaker 1: that bag. And this is where Danny's not around here,
Speaker 1: because Danny always wanted to argue with me about this.
Speaker 1: When you take the bag, I geed you to put
Speaker 1: up the numbers. That's it. That's the name of the
Speaker 1: game guy, right Tank's not been Aaron Donald asked for
Speaker 1: the bag. They gave Aaron Donald the bag. And what
Speaker 1: we see week one, look and look what he did.
Speaker 1: He was he was throwing Zeke into that, he was
Speaker 1: throwing Zach Martin all over the place. He was that
Speaker 1: guy creating pressure. And like I said a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, for this defense to be the defense we
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be, it's gonna have to rely on
Speaker 1: that front and that defensive line, and we can't have
Speaker 1: as much as I like what Alden Smith has been
Speaker 1: doing these first couple of weeks. If this defense wants
Speaker 1: to be the top Nach defensive can be. We can't
Speaker 1: have Alden Smith being its premium pass rusher. We can't
Speaker 1: have that being the top pass rusher. We need the
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence to twenty one million dollars man. We need
Speaker 1: just got to generate some pass rush, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: quarterback hurries, quarterback hits, you know, splash plays. We need
Speaker 1: something from him in order for this defense to reach
Speaker 1: the heights. It needs to. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: when you take that kind of money, you just steak.
Speaker 1: Alden Smith is the mac and cheese. The mac and
Speaker 1: cheese can't be the overpowered part of the dinner. You
Speaker 1: want the steak to be the main attraction. And that's
Speaker 1: what take Hash to do. Your best players have to
Speaker 1: show up, and the Cowboys need him to do it.
Speaker 1: I know he's dealing with a knee injury. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if he'll play yet. I mean, that's still
Speaker 1: to be determined. Babe Lofelberg was watching the film. Babe
Speaker 1: Lotheenberg and the Cowboys Radio Network said the tank was
Speaker 1: out there on one leg and probably should have been pulled.
Speaker 1: So I don't know the extent of the knee injury,
Speaker 1: and if he's even gonna be there. But if he's
Speaker 1: not there and you have to go with Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: and Alden Smith, fine, so be it. But the message
Speaker 1: of what I'm saying in terms of Tank needing to
Speaker 1: deliver more, I said it all summer long, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep saying it because it's fair. And I go
Speaker 1: back to Mary Cooper. You know you sat out there
Speaker 1: and you're like, well, nah, man, he's earning his part.
Speaker 1: He's doing his part, okay, especially when you think about
Speaker 1: the offensive line problems. He's doing his part. You take
Speaker 1: this back. I need you do your part. Ezekiel Ellick
Speaker 1: all right, came the highest paid runner back in the
Speaker 1: league last year, has been surpassed. But he's doing his part.
Speaker 1: So when you want this cash, I need you to perform.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's earn at thirty one point four mila dollars
Speaker 1: shoot through two games. Dak Prescott's doing his part. So
Speaker 1: when we're going down to listen, we're looking at guys,
Speaker 1: we need to also look at number ninety Tank launch
Speaker 1: because if the team is going to go where we
Speaker 1: want it to go, they need him there to do it.
Speaker 1: Got to take another break here, want to dive into
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott versus Russell Wilson. How does a guy? How
Speaker 1: do quarterbacks view matchups even though they're facing the defenses,
Speaker 1: but how do they view going up against another guy?
Speaker 1: I want to get Church's thoughts on this because he
Speaker 1: was a safety and he dealt against those quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: dealt with these guys and just their emotional feelings as
Speaker 1: they go and face the other top players. We'll do
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Speaker 1: long time Cowboys reporter joined by Barry Church, long time
Speaker 1: cow former Cowboys safety with the team for a number
Speaker 1: of years before he got that huge contract going down
Speaker 1: to Jackson. Because while you can't exactly, you must you
Speaker 1: get paid while you can. Because I was looking at
Speaker 1: our friend Byron Jones, who left to become the highest
Speaker 1: paid quarterback in NFL history of Miami. Think that lasted
Speaker 1: about two weeks, two weeks before Darry's flat. But he
Speaker 1: was hurt yesterday, he got hurt. Yes, I'm not yesterday
Speaker 1: he got hurt on there in the Dolphins last game
Speaker 1: and ended up leaving the field. I haven't checked to
Speaker 1: see what his status is, but to me, when I
Speaker 1: saw that, I said, man, that's why you go and
Speaker 1: get what you can now, because in this game, injuries
Speaker 1: are going to happen. There's a one hundred percent casualty
Speaker 1: rate in the NFL. Sooner or later you are gonna
Speaker 1: get hurt. So you got to take the advantage of
Speaker 1: these opportunities while you can. And I know Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: for years has made made his deliving off getting guys
Speaker 1: to take less paid. But yeah, no to ring that
Speaker 1: bell for the dollars. Go ring that bell and get
Speaker 1: your take it and run, take it and run, because
Speaker 1: we know in the NFL, when the team is done
Speaker 1: with you, they'll cut you. Oh, without a question, all
Speaker 1: day long, they cut you. Man, So without a second thought,
Speaker 1: you know he'll say, hey, he had ten less, ten
Speaker 1: less tackles, and he had the year before. He's over
Speaker 1: the age of thirty. It's time to go. That's why
Speaker 1: you gotta get your money as soon as you can.
Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody tells you. Talk about take
Speaker 1: less so the other team could get more players. Man, Look,
Speaker 1: the other players ain't paying your rent once you get
Speaker 1: out of the league, or air paying your bills. So
Speaker 1: get all the money you can, get all the duckets
Speaker 1: you can, and don't look back. All right, Speaking of money,
Speaker 1: Doc Prescott us got a one year deal, so it's
Speaker 1: thirty one million dollars on the franchise tag. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: can't tag him next year, and if they do, to me,
Speaker 1: the pay will be thirty seven million dollars. He's facing
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson on Sunday in Seattle. People don't talk about
Speaker 1: this enough in my opinion, but when the Cowboys went
Speaker 1: up against Sam the wild card game, Dak Prescott got
Speaker 1: his first and only victory as an NFL player against
Speaker 1: Russ and the Seahawks. It was a twenty four to
Speaker 1: twenty two game back in January twenty nineteen. So how
Speaker 1: do you think a quarterback like Dak Prescott weighs the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go up against Russell Wilson, who a lot
Speaker 1: of people right now are saying is the MVP of
Speaker 1: the league after two weeks. I mean, without a question
Speaker 1: in my mind, I mean he's gonna treat it like
Speaker 1: any other player would against the opposing team's position that
Speaker 1: has the same as is. I mean, he's gonna take
Speaker 1: it personally. I mean all those matchups you think, you know,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady versus Peyton Manning, Brett Farr versus Steve Young,
Speaker 1: you think all those matchups, you know, they didn't really
Speaker 1: mean anything personally to them, you know, I think otherwise.
Speaker 1: I think Dak Prescotts looking at this game like, hey,
Speaker 1: if I can go out there and I'll perform you know,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, people start clamoring me as you know, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe I got that MVP NAE coming my way. So
Speaker 1: for me, personally, I'm always looking at the other safeties.
Speaker 1: I'm always looking When I had to play against Seattle,
Speaker 1: let me see what camp. Let me try if if
Speaker 1: I can outperform Cam Chancellor or Earl Thomas, or if
Speaker 1: I'm playing against you know, somebody else who has a high,
Speaker 1: high price safety. Let me see if he's all that.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can outplay him. So I
Speaker 1: guarantee you quarterback position is no different. They go out
Speaker 1: there and they compare numbers to each other. They sit
Speaker 1: there and say, oh, this guy through thirty touchdowns this
Speaker 1: year and I through thirty one, I must be better. So, I,
Speaker 1: without a question, think the quarterback position is no different
Speaker 1: from any other positions. They're always comparing themselves to the
Speaker 1: opposing team's position. So I think that takes his press
Speaker 1: personal and I think he's gonna get after Russell on
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Speaker 1: Let me ask this question your former team that Jaguars
Speaker 1: are playing tonight on Thursday Night Football against the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: DJ Chark is out for this football game with a
Speaker 1: chest injury, killing my fantasy team, So who wins. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, man, I think Jacksonville pulls this
Speaker 1: one out. After watching their first two games, they Garden
Speaker 1: missed they got something to him down there. I mean,
Speaker 1: we all know, you know, early in the season, everybody
Speaker 1: was saying how they're taking you know, they got rid
Speaker 1: of a lot of their players, and then they got
Speaker 1: rid of Fournette, and you know, we're taking to get
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. But I mean, I gotta give kudos to
Speaker 1: mince you down there. I mean, he's sitting there saying nah.
Speaker 1: He's been saying since the beginning of the season. Like like, no,
Speaker 1: we're not you know, we're not taking we're not giving
Speaker 1: anything up. We still believe in this season and we
Speaker 1: still believe in what we got. And he's been performing
Speaker 1: well these first two weeks. I mean the first game,
Speaker 1: I think he only missed one pass. So he's been
Speaker 1: doing great with what they have down there. They got
Speaker 1: a lot of receivers out there. DJ Chart is one
Speaker 1: of their main ones, but he's out this week, and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I mean for you, but fortunately for me, that kind
Speaker 1: of helps because I have the young rookie from Colorado
Speaker 1: as his uh as my replacement for him on my
Speaker 1: fantasy team. But overall, man, yeah, yes, yes, indeedy, So overall,
Speaker 1: I think the Jaguars pulled one out. Defensively, they're nowhere
Speaker 1: near what they were years ago, back in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: but they still can put up a fight. And you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they, you know, railed off
Speaker 1: a couple and they might end up winning this AFC South,
Speaker 1: even though everybody looked at them thinking, oh, they're nothing,
Speaker 1: they're just a tank team. So I got Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: this one. Plus I don't see anything from Fitz Magic
Speaker 1: this week, Um maybe two, maybe two, we'll get an appearance,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. But overall got Jacksonville and this one
Speaker 1: not so fast. Okay. I know Ryan Fitzpatrick is skittish. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know he's skittish, but skittish Thursday night, Yes, I
Speaker 1: say skittish. First week wasn't good, but last week he
Speaker 1: was a good fitback play Jackson Booker. This isn't the Steelers, Okay,
Speaker 1: not the Steelers, you know. So, So I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: sit here and say I think I'm looking for a
Speaker 1: close game tonight. And I give a lot of credit
Speaker 1: to Jay Gruten how he's developed Minshew here, but Chan
Speaker 1: Gaily in the offense I thought improved last week. To me,
Speaker 1: I'm worried about the defensive side of football here for Miami.
Speaker 1: You know, how can these guys make make it uncomfortable
Speaker 1: for Minshew? Because the kids played well, He's got confidence here.
Speaker 1: But I just I think they're out both of their corners.
Speaker 1: They're out Xavian Howard, I believe and Byron Jones, Oh okay,
Speaker 1: my bad, go Jad you know, yeah, you'll believe in
Speaker 1: that that fits magic. You don't think he's gonna pull
Speaker 1: some uh, some Harvard you know lessons out there, somebody.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be able to find you, especially what
Speaker 1: he was doing with his tight en j ziki last week.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be able to score. But if you're
Speaker 1: if you're you have two corners out against against this team,
Speaker 1: Jay Gruten's going to find a way to get it
Speaker 1: out there. I really believe Jay Gruten. I don't think
Speaker 1: Jake Gruten gets enough credit for how he took Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: Remember now he bench Robert Griffin. Was like, look, this
Speaker 1: is not the guy. He convinced Daniel Snyder to bench
Speaker 1: Robert Griffin. They went with Kirk Cousins, and they won
Speaker 1: some games with Kirk Cousins, and Kirk Cousins got kaid.
Speaker 1: This was all Gruten's work. It's all Jay Gruten's work.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's taken some just dudes and been able
Speaker 1: to play well with him. And I'll tell you another
Speaker 1: thing that I don't believe people give Jay Gruten enough
Speaker 1: credit for. He had Sean McVay there. Sean was his
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator before he got the Rams job. Jay understands football.
Speaker 1: He had Andy Dalton in Cincinnati. They were making the playoffs,
Speaker 1: Andy been a super Bowl. So when it comes to
Speaker 1: just working with quarterbacks in offensive plays, I think Jake
Speaker 1: Gruten's good. I think Jay doesn't run the football enough.
Speaker 1: That's been my problem with Jay. But here in Jacksonville
Speaker 1: under Doug Marone, we are seeing them running football with
Speaker 1: that rookie who they said was a good player. They
Speaker 1: cut Leonard Fournette, and they're not missing Leonard Fournette at all.
Speaker 1: So I look at what they've done so far and
Speaker 1: I say a plus because I thought this Jacksonville team
Speaker 1: was going to be a straight dog this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you and me both, you know, And that was probably
Speaker 1: a little bit of me, just hayting. But I thought
Speaker 1: for sure they were going to be just dogs out there.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be in the in the Trevor Lawrence justin
Speaker 1: fields running for the draft. But like I said, that
Speaker 1: was probably me just hayting. But this team, like you said,
Speaker 1: they haven't missed a step without releasing all those players,
Speaker 1: I mean, and most importantly Fournette they let him go.
Speaker 1: And that rookie out there, I mean I saw him
Speaker 1: hurdling people week one. I mean, he looks pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: So I think they're doing it by kind of a
Speaker 1: running backback committee. But it's working so far, and the
Speaker 1: only thing, the only thing I can think of is
Speaker 1: can they he has been he's been extremely good and
Speaker 1: can they maintain it? Though? Can they maintain it throughout
Speaker 1: sixteen games? We shall see, But right now they got
Speaker 1: that momentum going and as they say, Minshew, magic is
Speaker 1: real down there in Jacksonville. Ok. Okay, I come and
Speaker 1: say this all year long. I think that's asking a
Speaker 1: bit much, especially if they get into the injury bug
Speaker 1: that other people do. But if this is a team
Speaker 1: that wins seven or eight games, I think they've got
Speaker 1: to give consideration to keeping Doug Morone because what started
Speaker 1: off as a foregoing conclusion. If this team is able
Speaker 1: to do that, and you're doing it here in COVID
Speaker 1: with all the issues that they've had here, I've got
Speaker 1: to say, if I'm shot, coun maybe the head coach
Speaker 1: isn't the issue. Maybe it's the guy who's picking the
Speaker 1: football players for your team, and oh yeah it called
Speaker 1: Well maybe that's the problem here. But yeah, because we
Speaker 1: got a long team, we got a long win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is true. This is true. Man, All he needs
Speaker 1: if he if he wins six games this year, I
Speaker 1: think it'll be a win and I think he'll keep
Speaker 1: his job, especially with all those players they let go
Speaker 1: these past a couple of years. I think if he
Speaker 1: just wins six, he'll be there. And I think Dave
Speaker 1: Coyle will might might be gone. But we shall see.
Speaker 1: Like you said, we got a long way to go.
Speaker 1: But and throw this out here to let's go look
Speaker 1: at Matt Patricia with the lines. That thing looks like
Speaker 1: a pure mess that's happening out there. Adam Gates with
Speaker 1: the Jets, they don't look like they have. You've at
Speaker 1: least said, okay, you're Gardner. Minshew's been developed. They got
Speaker 1: Darnald out there with New York, and Adam Gates, you know,
Speaker 1: parades himself around as a quarterback guru. I think Darnald's regressed.
Speaker 1: He doesn't look as good as he did at USC.
Speaker 1: So that's without a question now man. That so when
Speaker 1: I look at what Jacksonville's doing, I gotta tip in
Speaker 1: my hand and said, you know, guys, so far, so good.
Speaker 1: Let's see how far it goes here, man, time flies
Speaker 1: when you're having fun. Church. That's let's get into our
Speaker 1: predictions for the Seahawks Cowboys game tomorrow. You and I
Speaker 1: both had the Cowboys winning. You were on point where
Speaker 1: your point totals. You had him up in the thirties.
Speaker 1: I had it in the twins. So we'll get our
Speaker 1: predictions out there and see where we go. And we'll
Speaker 1: have to just text Danny and get his prediction. He
Speaker 1: was long last week picking Atlanta, so we'll at least
Speaker 1: get Danny's prediction and we'll keep our tally here as
Speaker 1: we go through this season. Here right now, you and
Speaker 1: I are both one and one because we had the
Speaker 1: Cowboys beating the ram So we're one and one, uh
Speaker 1: Danny O and two? So there we there we go.
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